Danish technique to make your home a more welcoming and happy space
After the hustle that involves buying a house, it is time to convert it into home. Decorate it to our taste, give life and personality…
To help you in this process so beautiful and exciting, in Dream Sun Spain we bring you a very interesting blog about “Hygge”, a Danish technique whose objective is turn your house into a home, whatever your budget or the size of your property.
This technique is considered an art and consists of making your home cosy and a happy place.
“The home is the place where we feel safe, comfortable and protected”
The Hygge is about improving wellbeing and happiness through our surroundings. Plants, for example, plants are alive and bring life to a space. Another option is bookswhich allow exploration and contemplation.
In this way, it is not surprising that in our homes we find reading zones located in angles or corners, and not randomly. The reason for this can be explained through the theory of prospect-refuge, which according to the English geographer Jay Appleton, consists of the human instinct to search for places where we can see without being seen, spaces in which we feel protected. A clear example of this instinct would be the entrance of a cave, which would allow us to control the outside and no one could attack us on the back.
Back to Hygge: Other accessories that can give warmth and texture to our home are the carpets and the pictures.
A very important aspect in the Hygge is the light, plays a fundamental role in our homes. Wiking recommends replacing the uniform lighting coming from the ceiling with separate pools of light, like, for example, a standing lamp next to the sofa, or a balloon lamp strategically placed in a corner of the living room.
For natural light, the author suggests behaving like cats and sitting where the sun falls. Clean windows matter, because dirt reduces the light passing through the glass. Glass and mirrors can reflect outdoor light and make the room feel brighter.
If children live in your home, adapt the space for them by keeping sharp or unsafe objects out of reach and creating amini-space hygge” for them. Without a garden for a tent, you can create a corner in the living room using blankets and pegs.
Another idea to enable a “mini-space hygge” for children in a multi-storey home, you can take advantage of space from under the stairs.
All of this can be done by ourselves, progressively, seeing where to place the elements that conform little by little our future home. But if you need help in the practice of Hygge, because you are not sure what materials or what distribution to carry out, in Dream Sun Spain We advise you to hire experienced professionals, such as Delta TM.
